On Thursday, Bette Midler shared a video of a 1991 interview she
did with Barbara Walters, in which Midler alleges that Fox News
correspondent Geraldo Rivera and a producer drugged and "groped"
her in a bathroom in the 1970s.

"Tomorrow is my birthday. I feel like this video was a gift
from the universe to me," Midler tweeted. "Geraldo may have
apologized for his tweets supporting Matt Lauer, but he has yet
to apologize for this. #MeToo"

Tomorrow is my birthday. I feel like this video was a gift from the universe to me. Geraldo may have apologized for his tweets supporting Matt Lauer, but he has yet to apologize for this. #MeToopic.twitter.com/TkcolFWfA2

"He and his producer left the crew in the other room, they
pushed me into my bathroom, they broke two poppers [the drug amyl
nitrite] and pushed them under my nose and proceeded to grope
me," Midler told Walters in the interview.

Rivera's representatives did not immediately respond to
Business Insider's request for comment.

This week, after reports of Matt Lauer's alleged sexual
misconduct broke, Rivera took to Twitter to defend Lauer and the
"flirty business" of news.

Sad about @MLauer great guy, highly skilled & empathetic w guests & a real gentleman to my family & me. News is a flirty business & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation. What about #GarrisonKeillor?

Five hours later, after the tweet drew controversy and led
Fox News to issue a statement distancing itself from Rivera's
comments, Rivera apologized
for the tweet and called sexual harassment "a horrendous
problemlong hidden."